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Katie Haines
The Agency
24 Pottery Lane
Holland Park
London
W11 4LZ
UK
 
phone: 44 (0)20 7727 1346
fax: 44 (0)20 7727 9037
www: The Agency
e-mail: khaines (at) theagency (dot) co (dot) uk

Victoria Hobbs
A.M. Heath
6 Warwick Court
London
WC1R 5DJ

 
phone: +44 (0) 207 242 2811
fax: +44 (0) 207 242 2711
www: A.M. Heath
email: A.M. Heath contact page

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Biography

Deborah Levy trained at Dartington College of Arts leaving in 1981 to write a number of plays, highly acclaimed for their "intellectual rigour, poetic fantasy and visual imagination", including PAX, HERESIES for the Royal Shakespeare Company, CLAM, CALL BLUE JANE, SHINY NYLON, HONEY BABY MIDDLE ENGLAND, PUSHING THE PRINCE INTO DENMARK and MACBETH-FALSE MEMORIES, some of which are published in LEVY: PLAYS 1 (Methuen)

Deborah wrote and published her first novel BEAUTIFUL MUTANTS (Vintage), when she was 27 years old. The experience of not having to give her words to a director, actors and designer to interpret, was so exhilarating, she wrote a few more. These include, SWALLOWING GEOGRAPHY, THE UNLOVED (Vintage) and BILLY and GIRL (Bloomsbury). She has always written across a number of art forms (see Bookworks and Collaborations with visual artists) and was Fellow in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge from 1989-1991.

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Scripts written for Theatre / Performance

"Deborah Levy creates perfect jewels with her richly imaginative theatre .... pioneering writing that has changed the form of our new drama"
    City Limits

2005

My script for ventriloquist and dummy, The Inner Voice/I am big-a collaboration with Asta Groting- premieres at Theater der Welt, Stuttgart in July. It will tour Rotterdam Schouwburg in August, Oslo Museum of Modern Art in September and Tanzquatier Wien (Vienna) May 2006.

2003

Texts for Forced Entertainment's Marathon Lexicon. Theatre Mousonturm. Frankfurt

2000

MACBETH-FALSE MEMORIES. Hammersmith Lyric. Directed by Nick Philippou.(Methuen. Levy: Plays 1.)

1995

HONEY BABY: LaMama Theatre. Melbourne.(Methuen. Levy: Plays 1.) Directed by Susanne Chaundry.

1993

CALL BLUE JANE commissioned by, and in collaboration with ManAct Theatre, Chapter Arts, ICA, Royal Court, European Tour.

1993

THE B FILE-An erotic interrogation of five female personas. Chapter Arts , Cardiff. Directed by Deborah Levy. This is one of Deborah's most performed texts.(Methuen. Levy: Plays 1.)

1985

CLAM. Directed by Anna Furse for Blood Group. Oval House, Theatre.( Methuen. Levy: Plays 1.)

1985

HERESIES. Royal Shakespeare Company.

1984

PAX . Directed by Lily Susan Todd. Women's Theatre Group.
National Tour, UK +USA (Methuen. Levy: Plays 1.)

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Talks, Readings & Lectures

2006

National Institute of Design,India
In January Deborah will be leading a five day masterclass on writing with film maker Joan Ashorth.

2006

Huddersfield University. Feb 23rd
Deborah will be contributing to a symposium looking at 'Postdramatic Theatre' - theatre that can no longer be contained by the term 'Drama'. The Symposium is also organised to launch Hans-Thies Lehmann's book 'Postdramatic Theatre', which has just been translated into English by Karen Juers-Munby.

2005

Deborah's text "Charisma" written for the UK's most innovative theatre company can now be accessed on Forced Entertainment

2005

The Inner Voice Book and Video Presentation with Asta Gröting (Berlin) and Deborah Levy (author, London) Monday 24 January 2005, 8 p.m. Münzclub, Münzstr. 23, 10178 Berlin. Asta Gröting: »THE INNER VOICE«

2004

Innovative Narrative strategies in the Novel and Performance Central Saint Martins

2001

THE JOSEPH BEUYS LECTURES
 
Imagining Germany
are presented by The Laboratory at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art.
Three spoken texts which explore how ideas that live in the mind translate into ideas that live in the world.
 
Imagining Germany
I dreamt of this
Migrations to elsewhere and other places
 
Deborah was invited to give this lecture at the Centre for Ideas, Victorian College of Arts, Melbourne.

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Scripts for Film / TV

1998

Suburban Psycho (11 mins) BBC2. Directed by Chris Rodley

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Journalism

Deborah has written features on aspects of contemporary culture + book and theatre reviews for The Independent, The Guardian, Time Out, The Times, The New Statesman, Vogue.

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Anthologies and Journals

2006

Essay for Anarchic Dance edited by Billy Cowie and Liz Aggiss (Routledge)

2005

A Roaming Alphabet for The Inner Voice by Asta Groting (Revolver) www.revolver-books.de

2005

Text for Changing States: Contemporary Art and Ideas in an Era of Globalisation-international institute of visual arts (inIVA)

2000

"Six small acts for big women" :Performance, the Millennium and the Marking of time (Black Dog) ed. Adrian Heathfield

1998

Editor of ENHANCED PERFORMANCE by Richard Lazell. (first site)

1997

"The Eros of Rose." Essay on the work of Rose English for the Rivers Oram anthology "One split second of paradise."

1993

Editor of WALKS ON WATER . Anthology of contemporary performance texts. ( Methuen)

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